Staff Software Engineer

Why loveholidays?

At loveholidays, we’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.

About the team

Join our Flight Supply team within the Supply department, where you'll play a key role in expanding and optimising our flight offerings.

We're responsible for integrating with flight suppliers, ensuring a wide selection, competitive pricing, accurate availability, and seamless fulfilment for our customers' holiday packages.

We're passionate about scalability! You'll contribute to bringing new integrations online, identifying supplier opportunities, and ensuring our platform effortlessly handles billions of flight combinations. Our goal is a simple, configurable system ready to power new markets.

We value performance and scalability in everything we do, leveraging both fundamental Computer Science principles and cutting-edge cloud technologies. Our tech stack is primarily Go and Java, but we encourage using the right tool for the job.

The impact you’ll have:

Reporting to the Lead Engineer for the Flight Supply team, you will focus on optimising breadth of choice, cost & availability accuracy and ensure scalability for our flights offering.

Your day-to-day:

• Contributing to a high-performing Flight Supply team by applying our engineering principles.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from conception to deployment and monitoring, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, and efficient.
• Developing software in Go or Java.
• Deploying applications via Google Cloud and Kubernetes.
• Monitoring the performance of applications through Prometheus and Grafana.
• Mentoring other engineers within the team on best practices.

Your skillset:

• You have extensive experience coding in Go and/or Java.
• You are an experienced and motivated engineer who consistently leads by example.
• You enjoy collaborating with other engineers through pair programming.
• You have proven experience in building scalable and high-performance applications, employing cutting edge algorithms, software design and technologies to do so.
• Applying a product mindset, you solve for end users first, with technology being a means to an end.
• You have a constant interest in learning more about the latest trends in technology, and want to grow further. We invest in engineer’s growth and will give you the platform to do it.
• You own applications end to end, from specification to coding, to deploying, running and monitoring in production.

Desirable

• You have experience deploying applications in Kubernetes through Google Cloud.
• You have experience managing infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• You are comfortable using BigQuery to analyse data to help identify areas of opportunity within the team.

Perks of joining us:

• Company pension contributions at 5%.
• Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.
• Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.
• 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum.
• Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
• Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.

At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey.

The interview journey:

• 1st stage interview with two engineers from the team.
• Tech challenge - you can choose between a live and take home option.
• Final stage - consisting of discussions around three key areas.